{"id":18384,"date":"2023-05-02T21:42:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/are-there-ways-for-emerging-countries-to-take-advantage-of-the-growing-us-china-trade-tensions\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:42:34","slug":"are-there-ways-for-emerging-countries-to-take-advantage-of-the-growing-us-china-trade-tensions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/are-there-ways-for-emerging-countries-to-take-advantage-of-the-growing-us-china-trade-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there ways for emerging countries to take advantage of the growing US-China trade tensions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A paper of about 10 pages (roughly 20,000 characters incl. spaces) is
\ndue on Wednesday,<\/span> <\/span>automatically run
\nthrough the Turnitin plagiarism test. I set a relatively late deadline after<\/span>

\n<\/span>the final, which
\nleaves no room for extensions.<\/span>

\n<\/span>You should pick a
\ncurrent, narrow issue in international political economy and discuss it<\/span> <\/span>analytically,
\ncombining a case study with some of the issues and problems discussed in class.<\/span>

\n<\/span>For research, you can
\nuse articles, books and internet sources of assured quality (i.e. no<\/span> <\/span>Wikipedia).<\/span>

\n<\/span>The paper must apply
\nthe scientific method. Choose a research question that is relevant to<\/span> <\/span>your topic, develop
\nmore than one hypothesis (at least you need to contrast your hypothesis<\/span> <\/span>with a null
\nhypothesis), then test them against the evidence that you collected in your<\/span>

\n<\/span>research. Do not
\noverload your paper with details, but bolster your arguments with relevant<\/span> <\/span>facts.<\/span>

\n<\/span>Try to answer your
\nresearch question in your conclusion, but if the evidence does not allow<\/span> <\/span>you to arrive at a
\nclear answer, perhaps because different IPE schools arrive at different<\/span> <\/span>answers, just say so.
\nThat is better than a conclusion that is not sufficiently backed up.<\/span>

\n<\/span>You can also conclude
\nyour paper with your personal opinion, but only after having<\/span> <\/span>developed plausible
\nevidence-based arguments. In the core of the paper, there is little room<\/span>

\n<\/span>for opinions.<\/span>

\n<\/span>Over the years, I
\nhave received research papers that suffered from two major flaws: They<\/span> <\/span>were either pure
\nopinion pieces where the author had made up his\/her mind before starting<\/span> <\/span>to research, or they
\nwere just a presentation of facts without any sound analysis. Try to<\/span> <\/span>avoid both pitfalls.<\/span>

\n<\/span>The paper proposal
\nshould be more than an outline. It should state the research question,<\/span> <\/span>outline the relevant
\nfacts that you will research, possible lines of arguments and the way you<\/span> <\/span>want to test your
\nhypotheses, and give a detailed list of appropriate literature.<\/span>

\n

\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

S<\/span><\/b>uggestion<\/span><\/b> from Professor- <\/span><\/b>is that you either look at the EU, which is
\ncurrently trying to formulate its response to the US-China tensions (Macron and
\nvon der Leyen in Beijing) or, even better, look at Brazil as China’s main
\ntrading partner in Latin America.<\/span><\/b>

\n

\nWith this case study, you can start to test your
\nhypothesis. I only doubt the practicality of hypothesis

\nII: Countries often do not have the means to boost R&D and investment
\nsufficiently to make up for a loss of trade. And regarding Hypothesis I: Are
\nthere any good alternatives to US and China? Can’t a country like Brazil rather
\ntake advantage of these tensions, but attracting more Chinese trade and
\ninvestment and offering itself as an alternative to China as a relatively cheap
\nproduction location?<\/span>

\n

\nThe last idea could also work for Mexico, which is best placed to replace China
\nas the industrial machine for the US market.<\/span>

\n

\nSo perhaps the best research question is: Are
\nthere ways for emerging countries to take advantage of the growing US-China
\ntrade tensions?<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A paper of about 10 pages (roughly 20,000 characters incl. spaces) is due on Wednesday, automatically run through the Turnitin plagiarism test. I set a relatively late deadline after the final, which leaves no room for extensions. You should pick a current, narrow issue in international political economy and discuss it analytically, combining a case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[710],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}